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One Door Closes, Another Door Shuts
Polling station sign for the EU referendum vote, 2016. (Courtesy: Wikimedia Commons) One Door Closes, Another Door Shuts Tiffany Atkinson Note: Soon after I received Amit’s invitation to take part in the symposium, ‘On Failing’, I heard the slip of the tongue that prompted this piece, which became not so much a ‘paper’ as a series of creative-critical reflections on two failures, one personal and one public, that have happened recently (February 2020). 1.
60 Years Since Sylvia Plath’s Death: Why Modern Poets Can’t Help but Write ‘After Sylvia’
This year marks the 60th anniversary of Sylvia Plath’s death. Had Plath enjoyed the longevity of her poetry, she would have turned 90 in October 2022. So significant was Plath’s contribution to modern poetry (her most recent biographer, Heather Clark, describes her as “perhaps the best-known American woman poet of the 20th century”) that in a sense contemporary poets can’t help but write “after Sylvia”. Plath’s literary fame only arrived after her death.
Tiffany Atkinson, Author at Live Wire
Sylvia Plath left behind a complicated legacy. Contemporary writers influenced by her work must juggle inspiration with some problematic imagery – as a poetry expert explains.
60 years since Sylvia Plath’s death: why modern poets can’t help but write ‘after Sylvia’
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60 years since Sylvia Plath’s death: why modern poets can’t help but write ‘after Sylvia’
This year marks the 60th anniversary of Sylvia Plath’s death. Had Plath enjoyed the longevity of her poetry, she would have turned 90 in October 2022. So significant was Plath’s contribution to modern poetry (her most recent biographer, Heather Clark, describes her as “perhaps the best-known American woman poet of the 20th century”) that in a sense contemporary poets can’t help but write “after Sylvia”. Plath’s literary fame only arrived after her death.
February 2021 | Bookanista
Runaways and free spirits “Every landscape needs a figure in it, perhaps especially a figure that is only intermittently visible, that is mysterious and alert,” observes a gardener in Jane Smiley’s The Strays of Paris who spies a beautiful racehorse roaming freely in the middle of the French capital. The racehorse is Paras (short for Perestroika). She became a... Bit by bit by bit What happened? Everyone asked the question, had been asking since the election.
Poetry | Bookanista
from Mother, Nature Aoife Lyall’s debut collection Mother, Nature explores the tragic and tender experiences of pregnancy and early motherhood, from antenatal complications and the devastating pain of miscarriage to the overwhelming joy of healthy delivery and healthy infancy. “Nothing prepares you for the loss of a child,” she writes in her prefatory note. “I turned to what... from Lumen How might poetry help us articulate the body in illness, in work, and in love?
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“Atkinson sees the absurdity in everyday scenarios, but also their poetic potential.” Sarah Howe How might poetry help us articulate the body in illness, in work, and in love? Tiffany Atkinson’s fourth collection includes the sequence ‘Dolorimeter’, which won the 2014 Medicine Unboxed Prize.
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